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End-to-End Culture Management Platform
The technology partnerfor cultural institutions
From digitising ancient manuscripts to managing international exhibitions and tracing provenance across centuries — ULLAV combines a purpose-built platform with deep sector expertise to support the work that matters most.
What we do
Built for the complexity of cultural work
Cultural institutions manage irreplaceable material under real constraints. Every project has its own requirements — ULLAV is built to handle all of them.
Manuscript Digitisation
Digitise fragile written heritage and make it searchable and accessible to scholars worldwide, with full metadata, OCR, and IIIF-compliant delivery.
Archaeological Recording
Document artefacts as they emerge from the ground — photographs, measurements, find context, and research notes — with provenance linked from day one.
Collection & Provenance
Track the complete ownership and exhibition history of every object, with audit trails that satisfy regulatory, ethical, and insurance requirements.
Exhibition Management
Plan and execute loan programmes and travelling exhibitions — managing condition reports, transport logistics, and insurance documentation in one place.
Cross-Institutional Research
Share collection data, research findings, and digital assets with partner institutions — without surrendering ownership, access control, or data sovereignty.
Public Access Portals
Build modern, searchable digital presences that let the public explore your collections from anywhere — widening access without compromising security.
The Platform
One connected system for the entire lifecycle
Vertical Products
Clann
Family History
Comad
Digital Assets
Collections
Archives & Museums
Future
More verticals…
ULLAV Platform Services
DAM
Digital Asset Management
AWE
Workflow Engine
Auth · SSO · Portal
Infrastructure
Cloud Hybrid On-Premises Kubernetes PostgreSQL MinIO / S3 SurrealDB
Standards-compliant from day one
IIIF, LIDO, Spectrum, and Dublin Core compliance means ULLAV data is interoperable with the global cultural heritage ecosystem — and meets the requirements of EU digitisation funding and Europeana integration.
Flexible deployment across the whole spectrum: from SaaS for small heritage societies to fully on-premises for national museums with strict data sovereignty requirements.
Digital Asset Management
Centralise images, documents, audio, video, and high-resolution scans — with rights management, metadata, and IIIF-compliant delivery built in.
Workflow & Process Management
Model complex institutional processes — digitisation pipelines, accession and loan approvals, conservation requests, research routing — and track them to completion.
Collection Management
Catalogue physical and digital collections with LIDO and Spectrum-compatible metadata, from first acquisition through loans, exhibitions, and deaccession.
Cross-institution resource sharing
Institutions on the platform can share collections, assets, and research with partners — with granular access controls and without centralising ownership.
Why ULLAV
Three things together that no one else offers
A general IT consultancy has delivery capability but no platform and no sector knowledge. A heritage software vendor has a platform but no bespoke delivery. No competitor brings all three.
A purpose-built platform
The ULLAV End-to-End Culture Management Platform provides DAM, workflow, and collections management as shared services — so every project, institution, and vertical builds on the same proven infrastructure. Cross-institution resource sharing is built in from the start, not bolted on later.
Deep domain expertise
Cultural institutions have governance structures, funding models, standards obligations, and data sovereignty requirements that general-purpose vendors simply do not understand. ULLAV is built by people who have spent decades working inside cultural technology — including direct experience with the incumbent systems the sector currently relies on.
Real delivery capability
We build fast, integrate deeply, and deliver bespoke solutions on top of the platform — digitisation programmes, data migrations, custom integrations, public-facing portals. Modern engineering applied to cultural sector complexity, without the timelines and costs of traditional enterprise vendors.
Research & AI
Where artificial intelligence meets cultural memory
Extracting meaning from historical knowledge
Cultural institutions hold vast stores of unstructured knowledge — manuscripts, inscriptions, ledgers, correspondence, field notes. Modern AI makes it possible to extract structured meaning from that material at a scale and pace that was previously impossible.
ULLAV brings these capabilities into production workflows — not as research prototypes, but as working tools embedded in real institutional processes.
AI Research Assistants
Conversational AI embedded directly in research workflows — with domain knowledge of historical records, genealogy, archives, and cultural heritage. Already live in Clann, where researchers query across centuries of data through a natural language interface.
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Extract persons, places, organisations, and dates from unstructured historical texts at scale. A digitised manuscript becomes a network of linked, searchable entities — people, places, and events that can be cross-referenced across collections and time.
Cross-Collection Discovery
Entities identified in one archive are automatically matched against records held by partner institutions across the platform — surfacing connections that would otherwise remain invisible across distributed collections.
Flexible AI Integration
We work with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and local models via Ollama. Privacy-first by design: API calls go direct to the provider, with no data passing through ULLAV servers — meeting institutional data sovereignty requirements.
Working with us
Turning complex cultural projects into reality
Projects we take on
Digitisation programmes · Collection system migrations · Public access portals · Cross-institution data sharing · Provenance research platforms · Custom workflow and integration development
If you have a project in the cultural sector and need technology that actually fits — get in touch.
Discovery
We start by understanding your institution — its collections, workflows, obligations, and the outcomes that matter. No assumptions, no off-the-shelf answers.
Design
We design a solution that fits your reality: your team, your standards requirements, your deployment environment, and your budget.
Build & Deliver
We build and implement with minimal disruption to your operations — connecting to existing systems where needed and migrating data safely.
Long-term Partnership
We stay with you after go-live. As your institution grows and its requirements evolve, your technology evolves with it.
The platform in practice
Live products built on the ULLAV platform
Clann and Comad are production applications running on the same platform we deploy for institutional clients — proof that the infrastructure works at scale.
Ancestry & Genealogy
Clann Family Tree
A graph-native family history platform with AI-assisted research, census record integration, and a built-in media library. Built on ULLAV's shared DAM and workflow infrastructure.
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Comad Digital Assets
A full-featured DAM platform for teams managing images, video, audio, and documents — with rich metadata, full-text search, image editing, and ZIP batch import.
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End-to-End Culture Management
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Ready to modernise your institution'sdigital capabilities?
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